Renaissance

5. Salvator Mundi is a painting attributed in whole or in part to the Italian High Renaissance artist
7. He believed in confronting the original text of the Bible, as plainly and directly as possible
8. The Decameron, subtitled Prince Galehaut and sometimes nicknamed l'Umana commedia, is a collection of short stories by the 14th-century Italian author
9. David is a masterpiece of Renaissance sculpture, created from 1501 to 1504 by the Italian artist
10. an Italian merchant, explorer, and navigator from the Republic of Florence, from whose name the term "America" is derived
11. The “father of humanism” and even the “first modern scholar.”
14. The Sistine Madonna, also called the Madonna di San Sisto, is an oil painting by the Italian artist
15. In 1508–09 he explored and settled Puerto Rico, founding the colony's oldest settlement, Caparra, near what is now San Juan
18. He is best known for his novel Don Quixote
19. The Prince is a 16th-century political treatise written by Italian diplomat and political theorist
20. Who formulated a model of the universe the universe that placed the Sun rather than Earth at its center

1. The first and most famous law states that planets orbit in ellipses
2. He invented an early microscope and a predecessor to the thermometer
3. He has been called the "father of English literature"
4. Invented the calculus in the mid to late 1660s
6. Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written by
12. A Dutch philosopher and Catholic theologian who is considered one of the greatest scholars of the Northern Renaissance
13. The Birth of Venus is a painting by the Italian artist
16. best known for his masterpiece La Commedia (known in English as The Divine Comedy)
17. He is famous for having made an important connection between geometry and algebra